فُوَّةٌ

Root: فو

Full Definition

فُوَّةٌ , like قُوَّةٌ [in form], [Madder; the species thereof used by dyers; rubia tinctorum;] certain roots of a plant which are extracted from the earth, with which they dye clothes, or garments: AHn says, red roots of a plant which rises slender, having upon its head berries intensely red and having much juice used for writing therewith and variegating: called in Pers. رُويَن: (PS: [in a copy of the T رُوَين or دُوَين: and in my copies of the S روَينه and رُويَنَهٌ:]) it is [also used as] a medicine, having the property of causing abortion, producing a flow of the urine and of the men strual discharge, aperient, clearing the complexion or skin, clearing the skin from every mark of the ringworm and of the white [species of leprosy termed] يَهَق: it has been mentioned also in the K as ending with [a radical] ه [i. e. written فُوَّةٌ, in art. فوه]; but, as is said by Lth, [and in the T,] the final letter is that which denotes the fem gender.

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